tuber

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  1. noun A swollen, fleshy, usually underground stem of a plant, such as the potato, bearing buds from which new plant shoots arise.
  2. noun A rounded projection or swelling; a tubercle.

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  • The potato tuber is an attractive model system for the study of starch metabolism, because it is a relatively homogenous tissue in which conversion of sucrose to starch represents the dominant metabolic flux. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • On the calcaneum, the tuber is long and robust; the sustentaculum is oval, small, and shelf-like; the ectal facet is convex and confluent with the curved facet for the fibula; and the distal cuboid facet is slightly concave and obliquely oriented. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • These shifts are seriously affecting the health of tuber, or root, crops such as the potato. —  Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed
  • This terrific tuber is packed with beta-carotene, fiber and potassium. —  Augusta Free Press
  • Schmidt said, "A tuber is a tumor, they call it a tuber because of the way that it grows, it kind of more like potatoish." —  WISH TV
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin tūber, lump; see teuə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin tuber, a bump, swelling, tumor, knob on plants, truffle, etc.; perhaps from √ tu in tumere, swell. Hence ult. prob. truffle.
 

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